Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 100
100 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction beloved memory was still fresh and alive, and who was pro- foundly loved by those who had seen him and had shared some most beautiful moments of their lives with him. They would have been doubly tormented, because it was not only the heinous mockery which hurt them but further insult was added to injury by the suffering of Jesus Christ as during his conviction and at- tempted crucifixion. I only wish that the Christian conscience of the free West could at least make some effort to understand the agony and anguish of a billion Muslims who are most certainly not tortured less when similar inhuman language is used against their beloved Holy Master sa and his Companions ra. The early Christians had to suffer all this despite their personal knowledge and despite possessing irrevocable evidence to the effect that Jesus as was alive and that he had not died upon the cross as boasted by the Jews. They had themselves treated his wounds. They had seen him recover miraculously from a deep state of coma in which his body was delivered to them, and had seen him with their own eyes, not in the form of an apparition or a ghost, but in the same frail human body which had suffered so much for the sake of truth and had yet miraculously survived death. They talked with him, ate with him and had seen him moving step by step, night after night in utter secrecy away from the scene of the Crucifixion. Ascension The subject of the Ascension of Jesus Christ as is untouched by St Matthew and St John in their Gospels. The lack of mention of